Shui-Kow, Fukien province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1869
- Reference:
- 19982i
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A man with a long pigtail, wearing a hat, standing beside a narrow channel of split bamboo with water running in it. In a valley with misty mountain slopes in the distance
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1869
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1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion
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Shui Kow, river Min. Chinese bamboo water pipes
Bears no Thomson number, now numbered [xiv]
Notes
This is one of a collection of original glass negatives made by John Thomson. The negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921
Reference
Wellcome Collection 19982i
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